PolicyGuy

Wednesday, November 26, 2003


Chicago Building Fire Aftermath
It looks like some of the deaths in the Cook County Administration Building fire over the summer can be attributed to faulty policy.

"[In] a report expected to be released today, city officials say [one] factor in the tragedy at the Cook County Administration Building was a decision by building managers to evacuate tenants into locked stairwells contrary to their training in the city's high-rise evacuation procedures."

Wonder if anyone's going to lose their job over this.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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